Not long ago I wrote about the Adibashis struggle to make their voices heard to depict how they are repressed by the Bengali settlers. Al Jazeera took notice of their efforts and has posted a roundup in their program website "The stream" which also quoted from my blog.
Here is a video clip of the program including interviews of bloggers.
Don't forget to watch the program.
More international news:
* IRIN
* Amnesty Internatio...
April 29, 2011
April 22, 2011
Bangladesh: Netizens Protest Human Rights Abuse in the Hills
Although outnumbered by the Bengali population, the close to one million indigenous and aboriginal population of Bangladesh live mainly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Over the years they have become vulnerable minorities.
During the 1970s and 80s, the government took steps to resettle Bengali homeless people in the three hilly districts of Bangladesh. There were resistances and insurgency by the local indigenous people and these previously tourist...
April 19, 2011
BBC is cutting back its foreign language services
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For millions of people around the world, especially in South Asia BBC broadcasts in their own language meant an alternative voice than the monotony or propaganda of their state broadcasts. In Bangladesh a place has been named BBC Bazaar to mark the trend - rural people typically gather around radios in public places (eg a market) to listen to BBC broadcasts.
BBC cutting back on broadcast services in Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Turkish, Albanian, Vietnamese and many other languages due to budget constrains. For many of the languages their...
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